Industry: Design

Typeface Family for Print and Web

Eight numeral styles per weight, with user-selectable defaults at licensing

Thema is a high-contrast bracketed serif designed by Nikola Djurek (Latin) and Ilya Ruderman (Cyrillic), released by Typotheque in 2012. Rooted in broad-nib calligraphy, it targets headlines and text set at 14 points or larger. The family extends to a cursive headline variant (Moderato), a display stencil cut (Moderato Stencil), and pairs with the related Typonine Stencil, together offering a broad typographic palette.

Set in Thema

Insights

Each weight ships with eight numeral variants—proportional oldstyle, lining, tabular (both oldstyle and lining), superior, inferior, circled, and circled inverted—covering running text, tabular data, and titling needs.
Discretionary ligatures and swashes extend to accented letters, broadening utility across multilingual headline setting.
Licensees can designate their own default numeral variant, an uncommon degree of per-license customization.
Moderato Stencil and Typonine Stencil are positioned as companion display cuts alongside the core serif and Moderato styles.